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Summit camp staff, with help from visitors from Denver and SCO, have shut down all summer buildings and relocated them to berms. Final flight of the summer season on 28 August brought 7 DV’s lead by the US Ambassador to Denmark, Carla Sands, up to Summit for a site visit.

The Summit Station research community is invited to attend the Summit Station Users Group Meeting on Thurs, Dec. 14, at 8am in the ARCUS Arctic Community Meeting Room Riverside I on the second floor of the Hampton Inn and Suites New Orleans-Convention Center hotel.

The Science Coordination Office (SCO) for Summit Station and the Greenland Inland Traverse (GrIT) invites you to take part in a workshop on Tues., Jan. 19, 2016, in Greenbelt, Maryland, that will focus on Future Research and Station Development Directions on the ice sheet including traverse science and ongoing research at Summit.

Over the coming decades, Summit-Isi Station provides a unique capability to measure, monitor, and understand global climate change. Summit-Isi is the only high altitude, high latitude, inland, year-round monitoring station in the Arctic.

The Science Coordination Office for Summit Station will host an open meeting of Summit Station users at the Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco on Thursday, December 18, in the Foothill D room on the 2nd floor of the San Francisco Marriott Marquis (55 4th Street) from 9:00-10:00 AM.

The Summit-Isi Summer 2014 closed a few months ago, and the winter-over crew has now settled in. Topics discussed in the newsletter include important upcoming dates, the new Summit Station GIS system, research highlights of summer 2014, and Summit construction updates.

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